12 March 2012

"The French Concoction"

From a list of adventures offered by Ultime Réalité,
a French business that specializes in creating liveaction
psychodramas “inspired by your dreams, your
nightmares, or merely by a film or book.” A basic
four-hour kidnapping costs $1,226. Translated from
the French by Elena Ciocoiu.

KIDNAPPINGKidnapped while you leave a restaurant or in the
parking lot of your supermarket, then handcuffed
and tied up, you will experience the violence and
terror of a real kidnapping—a psychological shock
you won’t soon forget.

BOUNTY HUNTER
For two days, experience the craziest hunting of
your life. As prey, you’ll hear the barking of dogs
unleashed to chase after you. You’ll have only
your gun, and at night you’ll try to fall asleep
scared out of your wits that they might catch
you. Or experience a more elaborate scenario:
first kidnap your prey, who will escape, and then
manage a team of hunters..

There's one more adventure listed at the source story in the May 2010 issue of Harper's Magazine.

1 comment:

Sounds like a most dangerous service. They try to do this kind of thing in Prague as well, and most of it seems directed at English stag parties - mock police arrest or kidnapping. But it looks very poorly managed, as you would expect from tourist services for permanently drunk foreigners.

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